Federal authorities have tied as many as a dozen people to a suspected al-Qaida-linked bomb plot on U.S. soil and are scrambling to gather evidence to indict the young Afghan immigrant at the center of that case on terrorism charges, law-enforcement officials said Monday. The disclosures came as Najibullah Zazi, 24, of Aurora, Colo., and two other men arrested Saturday made their first court appearances on charges of making false statements to federal authorities. Zazi, his father,...

Lawyers for a west suburban teenager charged with plotting to set off a bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar accused prosecutors Friday of dodging questions about whether the investigation was sparked by a massive government surveillance program. Attorneys for Adel Daoud wrote that prosecutors are purposely hiding information to avoid a possible battle over the constitutionality of the secret spying program, which was authorized by Congress in 2008 under an...

Counterterrorism officials are warning mass transit systems around the nation to step up patrols because of fears an Afghanistan-born immigrant under arrest in Colorado may have been plotting with others to detonate backpack bombs aboard New York City trains. Investigators say Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old airport shuttle driver, played a direct role in a terror plot that unraveled during a trip to New York City around the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. He made his first...

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON June 7 (Reuters) - A secret U.S. intelligence program to collect emails that is at the heart of an uproar over government surveillance helped foil an Islamist militant plot to bomb the New York City subway system in 2009, U.S. government sources said on Friday. The sources said Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, was talking about a plot hatched by Najibullah Zazi, an...

Intelligence officials say the terrorist operative who contacted an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a New York attack was the head of Afghanistan's Al Qaeda operations. The U.S. officials say Mustafa Abu al-Yazid used an intermediary to contact the 24-year-old Najibullah Zazi, of Colorado, as he hatched a plot to attack New York's mass transit system. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case remains under investigation. Al-Yazid is an Egyptian,...

* Found guilty on all nine charges, mother and sister watched * Defense lawyer plans to appeal, cites "serious legal issues" * Two co-conspirators have admitted guilt, are helping government * Sentencing due on Sept. 7, could get life in prison (Adds comments from lawyers; bylines) By Jessica Dye and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - A federal jury found a Bosnian-born U.S. citizen guilty on Tuesday of planning a ...

An Afghan immigrant pleaded not guilty Tuesday to planning a New York City terrorist attack with bombs made from beauty-supply chemicals -- an alleged plot authorities say was helped by at least three accomplices whose whereabouts and level of involvement haven't been revealed. "The conspiracy here is international in scope," Assistant U.S. Atty. Jeffrey Knox told a federal judge in Brooklyn. Najibullah Zazi, wearing a blue jail smock, never spoke and showed...

CIA bomber in Taliban video ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani television station aired a video Saturday allegedly showing the suicide bomber who hit a CIA outpost in Afghanistan telling the Pakistani Taliban leader that he had shared U.S. and Jordanian intelligence secrets with fellow militants. He also urged militants to strike other U.S. targets in retaliation for the killing of the leader's predecessor last year in a U.S. missile strike. Although its veracity could not be immediately determined, the video is...

CIA bomber in Taliban video ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani television station aired a video Saturday allegedly showing the suicide bomber who hit a CIA outpost in Afghanistan telling the Pakistani Taliban leader that he had shared U.S. and Jordanian intelligence secrets with fellow militants. He also urged militants to strike other U.S. targets in retaliation for the killing of the leader's predecessor last year in a U.S. missile strike. Although its veracity could not be immediately determined, the video is...

Federal authorities Friday arrested two more men in connection with an alleged plot to use hair dye and other beauty products to make bombs for use against targets in New York. Both of the newly arrested men, Adis Medunjanin, 25, and Zarein Ahmedzay, 24, live in the New York City borough of Queens and were high school classmates of Najibullah Zazi, 24, an Afghan immigrant charged with conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction after the case unfolded in September. Late...

The arrest of a Colorado airport shuttle driver on charges related to a terrorism investigation reveals a murky plot that involved him receiving explosives training with Al Qaeda in Pakistan last year and downloading instructions on his computer on how to build bombs But there's one thing missing at this point -- actual terrorism charges. Najibullah Zazi was charged only with making false statements to the government, raising questions about the nature of the plot. Zazi's defense team denied...

A Web-savvy Boston-area man was arrested Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists as part of a long-running plot to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" people, including U.S. officials, overseas and in the U.S. Prosecutors and FBI agents said that from 2001 to 2008, Tarek Mehanna, 27, of Sudbury, Mass., conspired with at least two other men to carry out an Islamist holy war, or jihad. That included discussions about killing two prominent, unidentified...

A Web-savvy Boston-area man was arrested Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists as part of a long-running plot to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" people, including U.S. officials, overseas and in the U.S. Prosecutors and FBI agents said that from 2001 to 2008, Tarek Mehanna, 27, of Sudbury, Mass., conspired with at least two other men to carry out an Islamist holy war, or jihad. That included discussions about killing two prominent, unidentified...

Intelligence officials say the terrorist operative who contacted an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a New York attack was the head of Afghanistan's Al Qaeda operations. The U.S. officials say Mustafa Abu al-Yazid used an intermediary to contact the 24-year-old Najibullah Zazi, of Colorado, as he hatched a plot to attack New York's mass transit system. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case remains under investigation. Al-Yazid is an Egyptian,...

An Afghan immigrant charged with conspiring to bomb U.S. targets in a plot possibly intended to coincide with the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday. Najibullah Zazi of Aurora, Colo., was ordered held without bail in what authorities have called the first al-Qaida-linked plot on U.S. soil since the 2001 attacks. He appeared beside his attorney, J. Michael Dowling, wearing orange sneakers, black trousers and a...

An Afghan immigrant pleaded not guilty Tuesday to planning a New York City terrorist attack with bombs made from beauty-supply chemicals -- an alleged plot authorities say was helped by at least three accomplices whose whereabouts and level of involvement haven't been revealed. "The conspiracy here is international in scope," Assistant U.S. Atty. Jeffrey Knox told a federal judge in Brooklyn. Najibullah Zazi, wearing a blue jail smock, never spoke and showed...

Lawyers for a west suburban teenager charged with plotting to set off a bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar accused prosecutors Friday of dodging questions about whether the investigation was sparked by a massive government surveillance program. Attorneys for Adel Daoud wrote that prosecutors are purposely hiding information to avoid a possible battle over the constitutionality of the secret spying program, which was authorized by Congress in 2008 under an...

An Afghan immigrant charged with conspiring to bomb U.S. targets in a plot possibly intended to coincide with the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday. Najibullah Zazi of Aurora, Colo., was ordered held without bail in what authorities have called the first al-Qaida-linked plot on U.S. soil since the 2001 attacks. He appeared beside his attorney, J. Michael Dowling, wearing orange sneakers, black trousers and a...

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON June 7 (Reuters) - A secret U.S. intelligence program to collect emails that is at the heart of an uproar over government surveillance helped foil an Islamist militant plot to bomb the New York City subway system in 2009, U.S. government sources said on Friday. The sources said Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, was talking about a plot hatched by Najibullah Zazi, an...